Nessel, Jen

Position

Communications Coordinator

Biography

Jen Nessel has worked as a writer, editor and organizer. Before she came to the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in January 2004, she had served as the communications director of the Coalition for the Homeless and managed anti-war events the Lysistrata Project and Operation Strangelove. Her articles have appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Nation, Newsday, Lingua Franca, and Salon. She was a founding trainer of the Grass Roots Organizing Workshops and ran a rape crisis center in college.